7-letter words containing h, u
- blucher — a high shoe with laces over the tongue
- blueish — bluish
- blusher — Blusher is a coloured substance that women put on their cheeks.
- blushet — a modest young woman, perceived as prone to blushing
- bohrium — a transuranic element artificially produced in minute quantities by bombarding 204Bi atoms with 54Cr nuclei. Symbol: Bh; atomic no: 107
- bonheur — Rosa (roza). 1822–99, French painter of animals
- borough — A borough is a town, or a district within a large town, which has its own council.
- bouchee — small pastry case filled with a savoury mixture
- boucher — François (frɑ̃swa). 1703–70, French rococo artist, noted for his delicate ornamental paintings of pastoral scenes and mythological subjects
- bouchon — a supplementary, baize-covered top set in the center of a bouillotte table.
- boughed — having a bough or boughs (usually used in combination): golden-boughed elms.
- bourkha — a loose garment covering the entire body and having a veiled opening for the eyes, worn by Muslim women.
- boxhaul — to bring (a square-rigger) onto a new tack by backwinding the foresails and steering hard round
- brought — Brought is the past tense and past participle of bring.
- bruchid — any of a genus of small, often parasitic, beetles
- brushed — Brushed cotton, nylon, or other fabric feels soft and furry.
- brusher — an implement consisting of bristles, hair, or the like, set in or attached to a handle, used for painting, cleaning, polishing, grooming, etc.
- brushup — the act or process of reviewing a subject, technique, or the like, for the purpose of renewing the memory, skill, etc.: He gave his Spanish a brushup before his trip to Mexico.
- brutish — If you describe a person or their behaviour as brutish, you think that they are brutal and uncivilised.
- buchman — Frank Nathan Daniel, 1878–1961, U.S. evangelist, founder of Moral Re-Armament movement.
- buchner — Eduard (ˈeːduart). 1860–1917, German chemist who demonstrated that alcoholic fermentation is due to enzymes in the yeast: Nobel prize for chemistry 1907
- buckish — dandyish; foppish
- bugshah — (formerly) an aluminum-copper coin and monetary unit of the Yemen Arab Republic, the 40th part of a riyal.
- bukhara — a city in S Uzbekistan. Pop: 299 000 (2005 est)
- bukshee — a paymaster-general in the Anglo-Indian army
- bullish — On the stock market, if there is a bullish mood, prices are expected to rise. Compare bearish.
- bulrush — a grasslike cyperaceous marsh plant, Scirpus lacustris, used for making mats, chair seats, etc
- bunched — a connected group; cluster: a bunch of grapes.
- bunches — a hairstyle in which hair is tied into two sections on either side of the head at the back
- burdash — a fringed sash worn over a coat
- burghal — (in Scotland) an incorporated town having its own charter and some degree of political independence from the surrounding area.
- burgher — The burghers of a town or city are the people who live there, especially the richer or more respectable people.
- burnham — Daniel Hudson, 1846–1912, U.S. architect and city planner.
- burnish — To burnish the image of someone or something means to improve their image.
- burrhel — a wild sheep, Pseudois nahoor, of Tibet and adjacent mountainous regions, having goatlike horns that curve backward.
- burthen — burden1
- bush it — to camp out in the bush
- bushers — bush leaguer (def 1).
- bushfly — any of various small black dipterous flies of Australia, esp Musca vetustissima, that breed in faeces and dung: family Calliphoridae
- bushido — the feudal code of the Japanese samurai, stressing self-discipline, courage and loyalty
- bushing — an adaptor having ends of unequal diameters, often with internal screw threads, used to connect pipes of different sizes
- bushire — a port in SW Iran, on the Persian Gulf; nuclear power station. Pop: 166 000 (2005 est)
- bushism — any apparently fatuous statement attributed to George W. Bush
- bushman — A Bushman is an aboriginal person from the southwestern part of Africa, especially the Kalahari desert region.
- bushmen — a woodsman.
- bushpig — a wild pig, Potamochoerus porcus, inhabiting forests in tropical Africa and Madagascar. It is brown or black, with pale markings on the face
- bushtit — any small grey active North American songbird of the genus Psaltriparus, such as P. minimus (common bushtit): family Paridae (titmice)
- bushwah — rubbishy nonsense; baloney; bull: You'll hear a lot of boring bushwa about his mechanical skill.
- butcher — A butcher is a shopkeeper who cuts up and sells meat. Some butchers also kill animals for meat and make foods such as sausages and meat pies.
- cachous — Plural form of cachou.